Articles by Edwin Heathcote

As part of our Performance Review series, Edwin Heathcote sets out 12 key problems facing the architecture profession. Collective guilt Architects, and particularly the younger members of the profession, seem to be profoundly burdened by a sense of guilt. One they struggle to repress. Construction is tough. It usually involves concrete, pollution and waste. It

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As the conflict in Gaza enters its sixth month, Edwin Heathcote reflects on the impossibility of architecture criticism in the face of such devastation. There are some things that are difficult to write. And there are some things that have become almost impossible. Is architecture criticism one of these? How can you write about buildings,

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French studio Lacaton & Vassal, which was today named the winner of the Soane Medal, demonstrate how architects can work with, not against, communities and existing buildings, writes Edwin Heathcote. When architects Lacaton & Vassal were commissioned to improve the Place Léon Aucoc in Bordeaux in 1996 they didn’t do much at all. In fact

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